ST. LOUIS _ Baseball, in spite of itself, ultimately will reach enough of a detente to have a season, however shallow that season is.
But the short-term and even long-term aftereffects of the disenchantment created could be considerable, says Bob Costas, the Hall of Fame broadcaster who still is doing games for the MLB Network.
"They definitely had a chance to do something worthwhile, to really have a positive situation, if they could have come back on July 4," Costas said to the St. Louis Post-Dispatch this week. "That would have been symbolic, national pastime and all that stuff and get the jump on hockey, basketball and football which were way down the road.
